Senior Data Engineer

The role

You will build the Keyrock Data Platform by creating streaming and batch pipelines for market, trading, and portfolio data. You will design lakehouse and time-series layers, develop self-serve tooling, and build data governance and quality frameworks.

What you will do

• Build streaming and batch pipelines for market, trading, and portfolio data
• Build self-serve tooling including SDKs, patterns, templates, and AI agents
• Own data contracts and schema evolution
• Design the lakehouse and time-series layer
• Build and evolve the Data Governance and Data Quality Framework
• Build derived analytics for trading desks and wealth and asset management
• Make observability, cost, and performance first-class
• Treat infrastructure as code using Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD
• Partner closely with Architecture, Infrastructure, Platform, and other teams

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of building production data systems
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
• Strong understanding of data modelling for streaming and analytical workloads
• Designed and operated streaming systems on Kafka, Redpanda, MSK, or Kinesis
• Used a time-series store in production
• Worked with a lakehouse architecture
• Proficient with Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD
• Ability to design for data quality and governance

Nice to have

• Understanding of financial market data: order books, trades, reference data, portfolios, exposures
• Crypto, TradFi, or both
• Lakehouse experience with Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake
• Familiarity with DataHub or similar metadata/lineage platforms
• Rust

Benefits

• A from-scratch mandate to shape the platform, standards, and team culture
• Strong partners in Architecture, Infrastructure, Platform, and the desks
• Autonomy on how you work
• Flexible hours
• Remote-first
• Business-hours on-call shared across the team
• Competitive salary package
• Regular online get-togethers
• Yearly onsite

Before you apply

• Passing background checks is a prerequisite to join Keyrock

About the company

Keyrock is a leading change-maker in the digital asset space and a well-established market maker. The company is predominantly remote with hubs in London, Brussels, and Singapore.